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MooEy · Post by **MooEy** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:42 pm

hoho, bp wor, just below my house nia. maybe when i free then i go there play play.

~MooEy~

newbgalore2 · Post by **newbgalore2** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 11:38 am

No its a newtonian. I'm very sure of it. Definitely not a SCT or a MCT which i would love. I said i would like a spotting telescope(astro telescope with erect prism), didnt say wanted an erect prism for the newtonian(which doesnt need prisms). and yes im from ri or chs.

Post by **zong** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 5:59 pm

Ok newbgalore2, you don't have to play games no more. chs has 2 newts, once you said your school using newts i recognised it right away. From what i recall, no other school uses newts. And your "my school doesnt give a hoot abt astro" eliminates ri. BTW, that newt is abit long yes, but it's great ok... It's the scopes from 1999 NYP's astro comp, telescope building round.. With 4 1/2 inch aperture you can see millions! (ok abit exaggerate la but u know..)

QuantumGravity · Post by **QuantumGravity** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 6:08 pm

No other school uses newts? well, my sch does...

anyway, if newbgalore is from CHS , and supposing he joined astrochallenge this year... that means... he sits in front of me during this year's astrochallenge?

Post by **zong** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 6:55 pm

Haha but I also know you all don't have many obs, if you do have them at all.. that's why technically I don't consider your school "using" newts

Anyway, so many telescopes, why not see if your school can "donate" some to this group?

It's bad to see so many scopes go to waste..

QuantumGravity · Post by **QuantumGravity** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:37 pm

well... my sch's obs are........ disorganised (yup, that's the word)

we won quite a few of telescopes from competitions. some others are bought. anyway, any idea how many scopes does ri have?

hlyf · Post by **hlyf** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:57 pm

haha hmm i kaypoh a bit here..
RI apparently has 1 working scope. 6" reflector or sth liddat (so my junior says.. he has quite poor memory.. and anyway i think they dun give a hoot about astro as well.. it's just part of their science club training program

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Post by **weixing** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 11:03 pm

Hi,
May be next time they should include some practical observation as part of the Astro Challenge... Since observation is one of the importance aspect of Astronomy.

Have a nice day.

Post by **zong** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 11:04 pm

Hmm, I don't think so though. Not "fanning" the people there, but ri takes all group that can win competitions seriously. Since they have won a number of times, I think the school definitely "give a hoot" about their progress...

hlyf · Post by **hlyf** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 11:30 pm

yeah i agree ri is very competitive, but then again astro comp is a just a minor thing there, they have their other bigger comps.. the reason they win is cos they're good at mugging, few of them have real interest in astro anyway (as far as i can tell from the bunch of pp in my sch astro club who were from there) :? haha

oh weixing, yeah astrochallenge does have an observation round.. but then it's usu plagued by bad weather

and it kind of disadvantages school which dun have scopes too..